Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

Using a novel method, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers map 16 types of simultaneous changes in dozens of samples; ...

Researchers are edging closer to something long imagined but never quite within reach: a single vaccine platform that could ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Fathers exposed to microplastics before conception may be setting their daughters up for metabolic problems later in life.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Originally classified as ‘junk DNA’, genomic regions which are transcribed into RNAs that do not serve as template for protein production have attracted increasing attention in the last two decades.

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...